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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

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But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. According to Tameka, staff visited her in Spring 2021 after receiving calls from the school complaining her children were not attending online classes. The social workers interviewed the children, inspected their home and looked for signs of neglect and abuse.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

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The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The graduation rate remained steady, and even rose to 67 percent in 2021.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

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Her book, “Pregnant Girl,” will be released May 2021. A former teen mother who put herself through William & Mary with her young daughter in tow, Nicole now works to change the statistic that fewer than 2 percent of teen mothers will earn their degrees before age 30.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So he has no idea if they’re learning. Your stories. practices solving?algebra

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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

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This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe. “I spent months writing,” she said, “just crying while I wrote because of how it felt to not be recognized.”

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A school year like no other: The class of 2021 played ‘the hand we were dealt’

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million teenagers were set to graduate from high school in spring 2021. That’s the entity that we would be better off without,” Jaden said in January 2021. At her desk, sitting among Harry Potter books and souvenirs from previous travels with her parents, Mana created a balance sheet to account for her final year of high school.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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And back in 1998 he had even co-written a book complaining about how, in his view, multiculturalism was leading to group-think, and how he wanted to “reverse the tragic disintegration of American universities and restore true academic excellence.” They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed.

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